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*whew* We’re back from Disneyland and with all our fingers and toes and kids and suitcases and, well, our sanity mostly intact.

Me and the family met up with the in-laws for a 5 day Dizzy-Land extravaganza that included, breakfast with Goofy, dinner with Gorillas and even an awfully expensive-but-worth-it dinner on the Bayou for us big kids. There were 4 kids and, thankfully, 6 adults to keep eyes on them.

I think we could have used more adults… or maybe just more adult beverages.

All in all, though, a good time was had by all. I shot photos like a madman, but oddly while looking over the 600+ photos that I kept I can’t escape the feeling that I missed a lot. I had grand plans to blog the whole thing with daily updates, but being fat and outa shape I had all I could do to download the day’s photos to my laptop without drooling on the keyboard while I nodded off at the end of the day.

Ryan had a lot of fun with his favorite ride this time clearly being Splash Mountain (see the YouTube video). The new Jack Sparrow-ized Pirates of the Caribbean was a close runner up. I quite enjoyed watching him run amuck through the caves on Pirates Lair/Tom Sawyer Island.

Katie was a little small for most of the rides but she got to meet Winnie the Pooh and rode the Winnie the Pooh ride about a zillion times (a fact which Mom I’m sure wasn’t too thrilled with).

The weather in Anaheim was “interesting” with it being warm there on out first full day (Tuesday) but left us freezing our patookies off every day after that. Cold days do wonders in keeping the lines short on the water rides though.

For reasons that escape me some of our gaggle (not me, I had camera gear) decided to ride the Grizzly River Run ride at California Adventure and got soaked though. What made this extra special was the freakin’ Arctic breeze that hit us on the huge Sun Wheel ferris wheel.

Anyway, I’ve a Flickr set online where you can see all the photos and some YouTube videos up as well.

Now I’m off to go tend some blisters.

More photos…